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SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced Sunday that its joint research with Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory on next-generation Peltier cooling technology has been named one of the world’s top 100 innovations at the 2025 R&D 100 Awards. First established in 1963, the R&D 100 Awards are often called the “Oscars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG will launch South Korea’s first company-run graduate school in September to train master’s- and eventually doctoral-level specialists in artificial intelligence, the Ministry of Education announced Sunday. Approved under a new law designed to bolster the advanced industries workforce, the LG AI Graduate School will open September 30 at K-Square [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics showcased a broad lineup of commercial laundry appliances at Clean Show 2025 in Orlando, Florida, unveiling artificial intelligence–driven machines and digital management tools as the company pushes deeper into the global B2B appliance market. The biennial Clean Show, which opened on August 23, draws more than 9,000 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a third of South Korean retail investors using mobile trading apps have experienced system failures or access disruptions, raising concerns about reliability in a market where split-second timing can determine profits and losses. According to a survey released Friday by the Korea Consumer Agency, 59 percent of respondents [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is fast-tracking efforts to develop on-device artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors, critical components for autonomous vehicles, collaborative robots, and unmanned aerial systems, as part of a broader push to secure technological sovereignty and industrial competitiveness. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Friday that a state panel [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Pay, a mobile payment system operated by Samsung Electronics Co., experienced a temporary disruption Friday, the company said, marking its third service disruption so far this year. Service failures for users with Hyundai Card were reported between 6:10 a.m. and 8:50 a.m. In a notice posted at 9:22 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — NCSOFT Corp., a leading South Korean game developer, said Friday it has signed a content distribution collaboration deal with local animation streaming platform Laftel. Under the agreement, Laftel will distribute 3,800 titles of animation content to NCSOFT’s NC Family Zone (NCFZ) PC cafes, starting Sept. 18. NCSOFT plans to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The new Lee Jae Myung administration aims to integrate private firms and the public sector, as well as all other sectors of society, with artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve what it calls a “super-innovation economy,” the government said Friday. Unveiling its five-year economic development blueprint, the government said private [...]
JEJU, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In a bid to modernize one of South Korea’s most iconic agricultural industries, the Jeju Agricultural Research and Extension Services announced Friday it has formally introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D modeling system to predict tangerine harvests more accurately. For decades, yield forecasts for Jeju’s signature citrus crop relied [...]
SK Telecom Faces Mounting Pressure as Regulators Order Full Penalty Waivers for Customers After Hacking Breach SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom regulator has ordered SK Telecom to waive all early termination penalties for subscribers who wish to cancel their contracts by year’s end following the company’s massive hacking incident, intensifying the financial [...]